A new trailer has been released for The Real Charlie Chaplin, a documentary that has just literally screened at the BFI London Film Festival. The film is narrated by Pearl Mackie and directed by Peter Middleton and James Spinney (Notes On Blindness) and will arrive in cinemas next year.
From the award-winning creative team behind Notes On Blindness and Listen To Me, Marlon comes a contemporary take on cinema’s most iconic figure. In an innovative blend of newly-unearthed audio recordings, dramatic reconstructions and personal archive, the film traces Charlie Chaplin’s meteoric rise from the slums of Victorian London to the heights of Hollywood superstardom, before his scandalous fall from grace.
Refracting his life through a kaleidoscope of previously unheard voices and perspectives, the film sheds new light on the many sides of a groundbreaking, controversial and visionary artist. For decades he was the most famous man in the world but who was The Real Charlie Chaplin?
I’m hearing some good stuff about this one after the London screening and look forward to seeing it. This one is a little while off, though, landing on screens through Altitude Films on 4th March 2022.
Here’s the new trailer and the stunning new poster.
